First Book of Sanskrit: Being an Elementary Treatise on grammar with Exercises
Book Specification
Item Code: | IDF921 |
Author: | Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar |
Publisher: | Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 2015 |
ISBN: | 817080048X |
Pages: | 218 |
Cover: | Paperback |
Other Details | 7.0" X 4.7" |
Weight | 210 gm |
Book Description
The study of Sanskrit has but recently risen in the estimation of the educated natives of this presidency and of our educational authorities. The old Sanskrit college of Poona owed its existence and continuance rather to a spirit of conciliation and toleration in our rulers than to their conviction of the utility of Sanskrit as a branch of general education. The modern critical and progressive spirit was not brought to bear upon it. The old Sastris were allowed to carry all things in their own way. After about thirty years since its establishment the authorities began to exercise active interference until at length the college was abolished and a new system inaugurated, which to be complete and effective, enquires, in my humble opinion, a partial restoration of the old institution.
This newly awakened and more enlightened zeal in favour of Sanskrit cannot last, or produce extensive results, unless books are prepared to facilitate the general study of that language. I have heard students complain that they find Sanskrit more difficult than Latin, and many have actually left the study of their own classical tongue for that of its foreign rival. I do not know if this complain has a foundation in the structure of the two languages; but this, at least, I am sure of that Sanskrit would be considerably more easy than it is, if there were men educated in our English Colleges to teach it, and if books specially adapted for beginners were available. It was with the view of supplying in some measure, this latter desideratum that this little book was prepared about a year and a half ago.
THE ALPHABET | 1 | |
VERBS- Present tense | ||
I | Singular Terminations | 4 |
II | Plural Terminations | 6 |
III | Dual Terminations | 8 |
IV | On the Present Tense generally | 9 |
General Result and Examination | 11 | |
PREPOSITIONS | 13 | |
NOUNS | ||
V | Nominative Case | 14 |
VI | Accusative Case | 18 |
VII | Instrumental Case | 22 |
VIII | Dative and ablative Cases | 25 |
IX | Genitive, locative and Vocative Cases | 30 |
General Results and Examination | 34 | |
ADVERBS | 36 | |
VERBS- Present Tense | ||
X | Singular Number | 37 |
XI | Dual and plural Numbers | 40 |
XII | Passive and Impersonal Forms | 43 |
General Results and Examination | 46 | |
FEMININE NOUNS | ||
XIII | Nominative and Accusative Cases | 47 |
XIV | Instrumental, Dative and Ablative Cases | 50 |
XV | Genitive, Locative and Vocative Cases | 54 |
General Results and Examination | 58 | |
VERBS-Imperfect or First Preterite | ||
XVI | Parasmaipada, Singular and Dual Numbers | 59 |
XVII | Paramaipada, Plural Number and Atmanepada, singular Number | 61 |
XVIII | Atmanepada, Dual and Plural Numbers | 64 |
General Result and examination | 68 | |
NOUNS ending in other vowels, masculine, neuter and feminine | ||
XIX | The first four cases of nouns ending in Masc and neut | 68 |
XX | The last four cases | 74 |
Examination | 78 | |
XXI | Feminine nouns ending in I, U, UU, and RI | 79 |
Examination | 85 | |
VERBS- Imperative Mood | ||
XXII | Parasmaipada | 85 |
XXIII | Atmanepada | 88 |
XXIV | Some of the more important verbal derivatives | 90 |
Examination | 95 | |
NOUNSEnding in Consonants | ||
XXV | CH, TH, T, VAT, MAT | 96 |
Examination | 103 | |
XXVI | AN AND IN | 104 |
Examination | 111 | |
XXVII | S, VAS and IAS or AAS | 111 |
Examination | 118 | |
XXVIII | Verbs- potential Mood | 119 |
Examination | 124 | |
PRONOUNS | ||
XXIX | Demonstrative, Relative and Interrogative | 125 |
Examination | 131 | |
XXX | Of the 1st and 2nd Persons | 132 |
XXXI | ADS and IDM | 136 |
Examination | 142 | |
XXXII | Selection, Poetical and Prose | 142 |
Appendix | 147 | |
Glossary, Sanskrit and English | 155 | |
Glossary, English and Sanskrit | 191 |